How Did The Andean Government Investigate A Rebellion?

In order to deal with growing demands from the Crown, the Andean government imposed a number of laws in attempt to profit from this colony; however, ironically, the laws only proceeded to instigate a rebellion. Specifically, the relocation of the Viceroy to Rio de la Plata ignited the Tupac Amaru revolution. Scared about the potential loss of profits, the Crown moved the Viceroy located at Lima to Rio de la Plata. The drastic differences in location caused many local elites and colonist to begin to question if the Bourbon regime was capable of governing them. The sale of forced goods and caciques greed manufactured tensions between two popular figures to local Andean people, Túpac Amaru and Tomás Katari, and acted as the foundation of this revolution. In addition to these two grievances, an ethnic revival of the Incan culture was used to garner the support of indigenous people as well as people of mixed descent. These factors combined to produce the most violent rebellion of this time, with thousands taking up arms and thousands more dying in attempt to overthrown Spanish control.
Central to the Bourbon reform was the attempt to lessen the control of colonial leaders and direct
Dubois shows the important aide of the Spanish to the slave insurgents, “Meanwhile Spanish aid breathed new life into the insurgent army, helping it to recover from losses…” (153). This support from the Spanish gave new life to the insurgencies while also offering them hope. Widely know that Spanish policies regarding freed slaves were more lenient than that of France’s, slaves and educated blacks could rally behind their support. These insurgents recognized that French policies did not always extend to their colonies, a major reason for the initial revolt, and as such rallied behind the idea of a better life that included more